One day in 154 BC, Emperor Jing of Han sent a lieutenant to trick the chancellor Chao Wrong into entering the palace, and when Chao Wrong traveled to Dongshi, the lieutenant suddenly got out of the car and read the Holy Will to give him death, and before Chao Wrong could return to the taste, he was caught by the waist and beheaded to death; regarding Chao Wrong's death, the mainstream view is that after the outbreak of the "Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms", The Han Jing Emperor killed Chao Wrong in order to appease the rebels; this statement has a certain truth, but the real cause of Death of Chao Wrong is not so simple.
Wu Chu, in the name of killing Chao Que, united with the Seven Kingdoms to rebel, and most people believed that Emperor Jing of Han misjudged the situation in order to make the rebels lose their excuses, and thus put Chao Wrong to death; Chao Wrong's loyalty to the Han Dynasty ended up like this because he was a victim of the struggle between the Han Dynasty and the princes, in fact, the death of Chao Wrong was not so simple, and there were the following reasons.
First, there is a contradiction between chao and the minister.
In his early years, Chao Que won the appreciation of Emperor Jingdi of Han with his superb debate eloquence, was promoted to the brains of internal officials, and was in charge of the Jingshi; whenever the Han Dynasty encountered a major state event, the process of deliberation was that the chancellor first summoned the courtiers to discuss and make a countermeasure, and then played the emperor's holy judgment, and finally the emperor handed it over to the relevant departments for execution if he was allowed to play; and after Chao Que took charge of the jingshi, he repeatedly tricked the Han Jing emperor into revising the rules of procedure; Chao que undermined the assembly system, causing great dissatisfaction among other important ministers, and the "Historical Record" recorded that Yuan Ang "was not good at chao, and the two did not taste the same language." This means that the two people look down on each other, to the point where they cannot be in the same room; the chaotic mistake of the act of unauthorized power has offended many important courtiers and laid the foundation for their own demise.
Second, chao's mistakes in cutting the domain are unpopular
After Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, in order to protect Liu Jia's eternal stability, he began to crown many of Liu's relatives as princes; Chao Que had suggested in a radical way that Emperor Wen cut the domain during the reign of Emperor Wen, but Emperor Wen did not adopt it; after Emperor Jing succeeded to the throne, Chao Que once again advocated the matter of cutting the domain, and Emperor Jing summoned his courtiers to discuss, except for the opposition of Dou Bao, who had a gap with Chao, the other ministers did not dare to speak too much when they saw that Emperor Jing was very concerned about it; so Chao Que, with the strong support of Emperor Jing, began to push forward the edicts of the clan; Chao Que, an outsider, dared to attack the Liu clan Causing the anger of the princes, King Wu united with the other princes to raise an army and rebel against the laws of the ancestors; even Chao's father thought that the act of cutting the domain was very inappropriate, which showed that the rebellion of the people and the separation of the people, and the forced pushing of the edict of the clan was very contrary to the people's hearts.
Third, Chao Que Ping rebelled out of the way
After the news reached the capital, Chao Que took the opportunity to exclude dissidents, saying that Yuan Ang had been bribed by King Wu many times, and now King Wu should kill Yuan An first in rebellion; Yuan An, who was very angry when he learned of this, he and Dou Bao, who had originally opposed the cutting of the domain, sent a message to Emperor Jing to kill Chao Que to calm the public anger; Emperor Jing at this time supported Chao Que to cut the domain, and after pacifying the two sides, discussed the matter of counterinsurgency with Chao Que; Emperor Jing hoped that the ministers would lead the troops to quell the rebellion, and Chao Que suggested that Emperor Jing personally march to the front. He sat in Guanzhong and commanded the battle.
Chao Que had already offended the courtiers of the court, and at this time he asked Emperor Jing to personally march and take refuge in Guanzhong himself, which was tantamount to digging his own grave; it can be seen that Chao Que did not have a thorough counterinsurgency method, and also wanted to put Tianzi in danger; Yuan Ang took advantage of this to play Emperor Jing said that Chao Que had arbitrarily cut the fiefs of the princes, and the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms was only to regain his fiefdoms, and now that he killed Chao Que, he could quell the rebellion without bloodshed; so Emperor Jing finally realized that Chao's mistakes were not eliminated, and it was difficult to calm the anger of the people.
To sum up, Emperor Jing made the rebels lose their excuses and kill Chao Wrong, which was a temptation; Chao Wrong's death was mainly due to his unauthorized reform of state laws and regulations, which offended his colleagues in the DPRK and China; and although Chao Que cut the domain in favor of the Han Dynasty, he was eager to achieve greed and arrogance, and after the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, he did not propose effective countermeasures, let alone allow himself to be in the official field; therefore, Chao Que was the focal point of all the contradictions in the Han Dynasty at that time, and his death was reasonable.
[References: Book of Han, Shi Ji, Chao's Theory of Error]